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Reuters - "Wild Hogs"' reign at the foreign box office proved to be very short-lived.

AP - The murder thriller "Disturbia" remained the top weekend movie with $13 million, while another murder tale, "Fracture," debuted at No. 2 with $11 million. More Info...  

AP - Anna Nicole Smith was never considered a serious actress, and she's unlikely to win any posthumous film awards for her final role as a goofy, flatulent superhero who's part of a trio of alien babes protecting Earth.

AP - The word "tentpole" is used to describe a blockbuster movie that can appeal to everyone. If it were applied to a festival, the Tribeca Film Festival would be it.

E! Online - Kim Basinger seems to feel that Alec Baldwin has only himself to blame for the mess he's in.

Reuters - Moviegoers are buying online tickets to "Spider-Man 3" at a faster clip than they did for its blockbuster predecessor almost two weeks before that film hit theaters, top online ticket sellers said on Monday.

E! Online - If the pants fit, wear 'em. 

That's more or less what the producers of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants are telling America Ferrera, who is reportedly not too happy about having to take time out this summer to shoot a sequel to the 2005 coming-of-age dramedy.

AP - Sam Elliott and the late Steve McQueen have been inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers.

AP - Selected home-video releases: More Info...  

AP - Sequels to "Shrek," "Spider-Man" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" aren't the only movies coming out this summer. It only seems that way. Beneath the Hollywood's behemoth franchise flicks, a few less-heralded gems sneak in to become niche hits and sometimes $100 million smashes.

E! Online - The Mean Girl is out and the Factory Girl is in.

Reuters - Making a film about the war in Iraq is a challenge. Shooting on location, as Iraqi director Mohammed al-Daradji discovered, can be a near-death experience.

Reuters - Murdered actress/filmmaker Adrienne Shelly's romantic comedy "Waitress" won the narrative feature competition award at the 9th annual Sarasota (Fla.) Film Festival Saturday. More Info...  

Reuters - "Heroes" star Masi Oka and Nate Torrence, who are shooting a big-screen adaptation of "Get Smart," are set to reprise their characters for a direct-to-DVD sequel of sorts.

Reuters - English actor Jason Statham, who most recently starred in the action movie "Crank," is in talks to star in the futuristic thriller "Death Race."

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AP - The face of Hannibal Lecter was no match for Shia LaBeouf in a box-office battle of murder thrillers. DreamWorks and Paramount's "Disturbia," starring LaBeouf as a teen who suspects a neighbor of murder, took in $13.5 million to hold the top weekend movie spot for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Reuters - "Star Wars" is so firmly ensconced in the pop culture firmament that its success -- in a movie universe a long time ago -- would seem to have been pre-ordained. But that was hardly the case.

Reuters - The teen thriller "Disturbia" led the North American box office for a second weekend, while new releases such as the crime drama "Fracture" and the hotel horror "Vacancy" failed to make much of an impact.

E! Online - Spider-Man will swing by soon enough, and then Shrek and Jack Sparrow.

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AP - LONDON (AP) — British Airways cut a cameo by Richard Branson from its in-flight version of the latest James Bond film and blurred out the tail fin of a Virgin Atlantic plane seen in the movie.